Multiple sitemaps for one site?

[PeterAlexLeigh]

Excuse my sitemap ignorance here.

I've got a site and it's got a blog in a sub-folder. The blog gets updated frequently, the main site does not.

Is it best to;

a) Have 2 sitemaps.. one in the root and one in the /blog folder.

b) Have 1 sitemap that is regularly updated

The reason being, I know there's various plugins that create blog sitemaps on the fly, so that would be much easier than updating the main sitemap every time a change was made.

If the answer is 2 sitemaps; Would you stop the root sitemap from detailing the contents of the blog folder or just update it every so often with the contents of the blog folder?

[gfiorelli1]

If you use Wordpress, as I suppose, check out for a plugin that can update the sitemap.xml of all the sites, not just the blog.

This one is just an example of plugin that does what I tell: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

[PeterAlexLeigh]

Gianluca,

Yes - sorry, It's a wordpress blog. But the main site isn't. So will this plug-in generate the sitemap for the wholesite (i.e from the root downwards?)

Thanks